Engineering Guidelines

The purpose of this section is to provide additional information on practical engineering

aspects about how to use parameters to achieve certain behaviors.

7.3.1 Setting the DS Report CPICH Filter

The DS report CPICH filter is used to filter the Undefined Cell DS reports regarding Ec/No
or RSCP, or both. The operator can, for example, use this filter to avoid triggering ANR
Mobility by too weak DS reported cells.

Both thresholds are checked by ANR Mobility independently. If only one is required to be
checked by ANR Mobility, the other one must be set to the lowest possible value: -24.0
dB (-240 * 0.1 dB) for Ec/No and -120 dBm for RSCP.

7.3.2 Performing Candidate Cell Evaluation

As a detected cell Primary Scrambling Code can be used by many cells on the same
frequency, ANR Mobility handles a number of Detected Set Reports to identify a correct
target cell to create a UtranRelation in the RNC. Because the DS report contains only a
scrambling code of the detected cell, ANR Mobility tries out all cells using the same
scrambling code and the same uarfcnDl and uarfcnUl. These cells are used as candidates
for handover. At each DS report, ANR Mobility chooses the next candidate cell and a
handover to that cell is performed. If the correct cell was chosen (assessed on the basis
of detected Uplink Synchronization), ANR Mobility updates the internal statistics.

Four parameters control detecting the good cell candidate:

anrCandidateAbsPropThresh, anrCandidateLowerThresh, anrCandidateUpperThresh,
and anrCandidateExpirePeriod, see Section 3.

The anrCandidateAbsPropThresh controls the number of handover attempts per each

candidate cell which are required by ANR Mobility to perform evaluation of the statistics.
Until that requirement is fulfilled, ANR Mobility tries all candidate cells in a round-robin
manner. Once all candidates have been proposed required number of times, ANR Mobility
performs the initial evaluation of candidate cells statistics.

Candidate cells for which a successful handover ratio is lower than

anrCandidateLowerThresh are excluded from further evaluation (the number of
unnecessary handover attempts to the wrong candidate is limited). If other candidate
cells handover success ratio is above anrCandidateLowerThresh but still below
anrCandidateUpperThresh, the selection of candidate cells for handover continues until
there is a candidate cell showing a handover success ratio above
anrCandidateUpperThresh. When such a cell is detected, the cell relation is ready to be
written into the RNC configuration database.

If a cell relation is not detected within anrCandidateExpirePeriod time, the ANR

statistics for this Primary Scrambling Code is removed from the source cell.